Oitenta Em Quotes & Sayings

As if one's capacity for pain had anything to do with life's apportionment of agonies, Mr. Kimmelbrod thought. Such idiocy. — Ayelet Waldman

Life is programmed to live,
Life is created to live,
Life does not surrender easily,
We can be strong
If we choose to be strong
We can be energetic
If we choose to be energetic
We can be pain-free
If we choose to be pain-free
We ccan be independent
If we choose to be independent.
But if we choose all tha, we must choose to move.
We must choose to exercise! — Miranda Esmonde-White

Lord Akeldama never did anything by halves, especially if he might double it at three times the expense. — Gail Carriger

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong. — William Hazlitt

They came there regularly every evening drawn by some need. It was as if the water floated off and set sailing thoughts which had grown stagnant on dry land, and gave to their bodies even some sort of physical relief. First, the pulse of colour flooded the bay with blue, and the heart expanded with it and the body swam, only the next instant to be checked and chilled by the prickly blackness on the ruffled waves. Then, up behind the great black rock, almost every evening spurted irregularly, so that one had to watch for it and it was a delight when it came, a fountain of white water; and then while one waited for that, one watched, on the pale semicircular beach, wave after wave shedding again and again smoothly, a film of mother-of-pearl. — Virginia Woolf

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is. — Edward Kennedy

I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about. — Don McLean

It advances Democracy": As it was throughout the Cold War, the response here should be "Democracy for whom?" "Democracy" has never been a univocal concept; and as a word, it has surely by now been degraded by so many reactionary projects, such as U.S. imperialism itself and the various middle class comprador movements that have furthered its purposes through coups and color revolutions. It is not the nominal political form aspired to, but the social goods that are being sought, that should weigh our evaluations of those who use such rhetoric. — Anonymous

The Machinery are a bunch of fuckwits who believe that the human body is best conceptualised as a machine, and that if behaviour is stripped down to only what is functional, a higher form of humanity will emerge. This means actions that lead to the fulfilment of their basic needs only. Disease is a malfunction. You can see where this goes. They're boring as hell, they only speak to convey information and they are more inflexible than actual machines. They are said to be good spouses and accountants. The one beside me has a distinct self-image, fully identified as a machine. He repeats to himself mentally, 'You are a machine, you are a machine. — Tade Thompson

I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on. — Marisha Pessl

She was one cocktail away from proving his mother right — Anne Taintor

Don't downgrade your dream just to fit your reality. Upgrade your conviction to match your destiny. — Stuart Scott

Give your evidence,' said the King; 'and don't be nervous, or I'll have you executed on the spot. — Lewis Carroll

The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one's own character. — Morihei Ueshiba

The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be. — F Scott Fitzgerald